ELECTRIC COMPANY
Progress Energy
1-800-452-2777*To subscribe for electrical service call the
above listed 800 number and everything can be handled by telephone.
*To pay a bill - Electrical Bills may be paid at the Turbeville IGA.

TELEPHONE
COMPANY
Farmer's Telephone Company*Lake City Office is located at 219
W. Main Street Phone #843-389-2759
*Manning Office is
located at 2389 Paxville Highway Phone #803-473-3300
*Sumter Office is located at 150 South Pike Street Phone #803-469-2529Clarendon County has two area codes -
803 & 843. If you live in Turbeville (843 area code) and wish
to
call another number in Clarendon County but it has an 803 area code all
needed to be done is dial 803 & the number - It will not be a
long
distance call as long as it is in Clarendon County.

CABLE COMPANY
Farmer's Telephone Company is the Cable Vision provider*Lake City Office is located at 219
W. Main Street Phone #843-389-2759
*Manning Office is
located at 2389 Paxville Highway Phone #803-473-3300
*Sumter Office is located at 150 South Pike Street Phone #803-469-2529

CLARENDON COUNTY SCHOOL
DISTRICT #3Walker Gamble Elementary School
East Clarendon Middle School
East Clarendon High School
For more information contact the District Office at 843-659-2188 or
check out their website at www.clarendon3.org

Driver's
License: A new
resident has 90 days to obtain a South Carolina driver's license after
establishing residence. During that time, a valid out-of-state license
may be turned in to the SC Division of Motor Vehicles and be qualified
for a South Carolina license by paying a $12.50 fee. Military personnel
may continue using a current driver's license and tags from their home
state as long as either is valid.

Tags:
New residents of South
Carolina must register all vehicles with the Division of Motor Vehicles
and have South Carolina tags within 45 days of establishing residence.
Registering an automobile requires the following: the odometer reading,
completed application for title and registration, tax receipt and proof
of liability insurance. If the automobile is currently registered in
another state, the current registration certificate and lienholder's
complete name and address will be required. If there is no lien a
certificate of title is all that is needed. The title fee is $5, and
the registration fee is $24 (trucks may be an additional charge), or
for those over 65 years of age $20.

NEWSPAPERS
To establish subscriptions to the following papers call:*Sumter - The Item (803)435-8511
(Manning Office)
*Florence - The Morning News
*Manning - The Manning Times (803)435-8422
*SC - The State
Newspaper

GARBAGE PICKUP
In the corporate Town Limits the Town of Turbeville has contracted with
Waste Management Company to collect household trash. The fee is
automatically added to your monthly water bill. Household trash is
collected every Wednesday (unless otherwise noted). A curb roll garbage
can will be issued when signing up for water service. These cans are to
be placed on the curb side by 6:30am on the day scheduled for
collection. The curb roll garbage cans are not to be left at
the
curb side except on the day scheduled for collection.

KEEPING DOMESTIC ANIMALS
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep any domestic animals or
fowl so as to be or become a nuisance or, because of noise, noxious
odors, flies, filth or otherwise, tend to impair health or disturb the
peace and comfort of the normal or reasonable occupants of nearby
residences or places of business. It shall be the responsibility of any
owner or caretaker to maintain either fenced or similarly effective
enclosures or tethering for dogs let out of doors. It shall be unlawful
for any person to own or have in possession any animal that has not
been inoculated against rabies within the proceeding twelve months by a
licensed veterinarian.

USE
OF FIREWORKS
Permissible Period of sale and
use: *It
shall be unlawful for any person
or persons to discharge or sell fireworks of any description in the
Town, except during the period from December 15th to January 15th and
July 1st to July 15th.

CURFEW
Council has set in order the following curfew for all persons seventeen
(17) years old and younger:
A) During the School Year - No persons, 17 years of age and under,
shall be on the streets between the hours of 11:00pm - 6:00am on Sunday
through Thursday nights, and 12:00am - 6:00am on Friday and Saturday
nights.

B) In the Summer
Months - No persons, 17 years
of age and under, shall be on the streets between the hours of 12:00pm
- 6:00am any night of the week.

LOITERING
It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter or prowl in a place, at a
time or in a manner not usual for law-abiding individuals, under
circumstances that warrant a justifiable and reasonable alarm or
immediate concern for the safety of persons or property in the
vicinity.

POSTING
ON PUBLIC PROPERTY
It shall be unlawful to place any advertisement, business, political or
otherwise, or any notice or sign of any nature on public property
within the Town, by the use of a placard, picture, paper, circular,
painting, or by any means or device whatsoever.

BUSINESS LICENSE
Every person engaged or intending to engage in any calling, business,
occupation or profession within the limits of the Town of Turbeville is
required to pay an annual license fee and obtain a business license as
herein provided.

NOISE
ORDINANCE
A) Radios, phonographs, and car stereos: It shall be unlawful for any
person to play any radio, phonograph or car stereo in the Town in a
manner or with such volume as to annoy or disturb the quiet repose of
persons in any dwelling, motel, or other type residence or business.
These noises shall not be allowed to be heard at a distance of more
than 50 feet.

B) Sound
amplifying devices It shall be
unlawful for any person to operate any automatic or electrical piano,
phonograph, loud speaker, instrument or sound producing device of like
character so loudly as to unreasonably disturb the peace of persons in
the vicinity or in a manner as renders the same a public nuisance;
provided that upon application to and approval by the Chief of Police,
permits may be granted to responsible organizations to broadcast
programs of music, speeches, general entertainment or announcements as
part of and incident to community celebrations of national state or
town occasions, public festivals or outstanding events.

The Town of Turbeville
believes in Fair Housing

Fair housing
is the law. It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of race,
color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or familial status.
Working with local geovernment like the Town of Turbeville,m you
can counter the evils of discrimination in housing. When you
suspect that you may be the victim of discrimination and prejudice in
the renting or buying of a home, call the South Carolina Human Affairs
Commission toll free in Columbia at 1-800-521-0725.
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